On Wed. Sept. 14, 2016, 11 a.m. at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, the 2010 winner of the prestigious Vincent Scully Award, Adele Chatfield-Taylor, will give a talk titled, Reminiscences of a Preservationist: What was Happening in the Early Days. The talk will be held at 295 West Ave, Norwalk, CT.
Adele Chatfield-Taylor accepted the award at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. for her work in historic preservation and urban planning. At the time, she was the president and CEO of the American Academy in Rome, a position she held from 1988 to 2013. She accepted the Scully Award with a revelatory speech summarizing the Historic Preservation Movement over the past 50 years.
Her resume speaks of her innumerable accomplishments including working for the Historic Architectural Buildings Survey under the prominent preservationist Charles E. Peterson. He introduced her to the new historic preservation graduate program starting at Columbia University, where she studied under James Marston Fitch and where she later became an adjunct assistant professor. She worked for the NY City Landmark Preservation Commission and established the New York Landmark Preservation Foundation and became its first Executive Director. She became the Director of the Design Program for the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington D.C. from 1984 until 1988, during which time she established the Mayors Institute for City Design.